Canalispina iapygia gen. et sp. nov.: the last Siderolitidae (Foraminiferida) from the upper Maastrichtian of southern Italy

dc.contributor.author Robles-Salcedo, Raquel ca
dc.contributor.author Vicedo, Vicent ca
dc.contributor.author Caus, Esmeralda ca
dc.contributor.other Consorci del Museu de Ciències Naturals de Barcelona ca
dc.date.accessioned 2025-11-05T13:05:48Z
dc.date.available 2025-11-05T13:05:48Z
dc.date.issued 2019-01-12
dc.description Siderolitid larger benthic foraminifera are widespread and abundant microfossils in high-energy shallow-water Tethyan carbonate platform facies of Campanian – Maastrichtian age. The more evolved representatives of this group, placed in the genus Siderolites, are characterized by a complex canal system and by canaliculate spines. For these characters they have been often compared to recent calcarinids. The specific name Siderolites calcitrapoides has been almost invariantly used for all Maastrichtian siderolitids with spines. In this paper we give the first accurate description of the siderolitids occurring in the Maastrichtian carbonate platform facies of the Salento Peninsula (southeastern Apulia) and of the Pachino area (southeastern Sicily). The architecture of the test of these siderolitids differs considerably from that of true S. calcitrapoides. For these morphotypes we erect the new taxon Canalispina iapygia gen. et sp. nov. The new taxon developed longer and more robust spines by changing the architecture of the canal system and by embodying the base of the spines within the chambers. Biostratigraphy and strontium isotope stratigraphy support a late Maastrichtian age for the studied material, indicating that Canalispina iapygia gen. et sp. nov., represents the last step in the evolution of siderolitids before the extinction of the group at the Cretaceous-Paleocene boundary.
dc.format application/pdf ca
dc.format.extent 24 p. ca
dc.identifier http://hdl.handle.net/2072/537638
dc.identifier https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cretres.2019.01.009
dc.identifier.citation Cretaceous research, vol. 98 (2019), p. 84-94 ca
dc.identifier.entitat consorcis ca
dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/11703/136607
dc.language eng ca
dc.provenance Recercat (Dipòsit de la Recerca de Catalunya) ca
dc.rights.accessrights info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess ca
dc.subject Foraminífers fòssils ca
dc.subject Salentina (Itàlia : Península) ca
dc.subject Sicília (Itàlia) ca
dc.subject Bentos ca
dc.subject Itàlia ca
dc.subject.category Ciència i tecnologia ca
dc.subject.forma articles ca
dc.title Canalispina iapygia gen. et sp. nov.: the last Siderolitidae (Foraminiferida) from the upper Maastrichtian of southern Italy
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dc.type info:eu-repo/semantics/acceptedVersion
dc.type.driver info:eu-repo/semantics/article ca
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